Clan Zorah

Well, since tomorrow I'll be back at work and likely to miss the close-down (who knows in which timezone that is calculated), I'll leave my goodbye post to this forum here today. I'm also on Discord, so it isn't a goodbye to anyone who also migrated. Although I still vastly prefer forums to Discord....

Well, it's still two days away, don't be hasty.

Vol wrote:Keeping some old clothes around will be a nice trophy one day, eh?

I probably should make some fotos wearing an old pair of pants when I'm done with my diet.

[img]Well, that didn't take long. Coming back from the dead and turning into a mutant in less than a month. That's gotta be a record. She's part of the X-Men now. So, are the rest of the X-Men gonna try to force her to abandon her friends and family like they did with Franklin and force her to live...

On Cardassia, advanced age is seen as a sign of power and dignity! :lol: :D A very happy birthday, young fella! Still a fresh-faced youth, spry and full of energy! Super Happy Birthday, Mag. Got the 4 in front earlier this year myself, but I'm aiming for the fun too. Hope your day is awesome. Happy...

Dragaros wrote:These little fan polls don’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things, but its always amusing to see Team Dextro come out on top.

Yeah, too small a sample size, but all the same, Team Dextro go!

And, I'm done with Everspace 2 . All in all, a very solid space game. It really is a bit arcadey and a lot like a looter shooter game, but the combat feels very satisfying overall. The story is so-so, okay but not outstanding, as are the characters. For the price it sells at, I can definitely recomm...

Well, today was stressful. Not long after I pulled myself out of bed, drinking 3 glasses of gin with only light snacks in my stomach was a mistake, power goes out. Fairly rare these days, used to happen all the time, but they fixed the powerlines after a bad storm. Go upstairs to see what's up, fix...

Absolutely, I agree. It's more just morbid curiosity on my part, watching from a far off distance as I shake my head. X-Men have been fucked into the ground with this Krakoa storyline as far as I'm concerned. Going full "crypto-fascist, xenophobic, war-crimes committing, creepy sex cult, isola...

Just saw the latest Mission Impossible movie. Very solid, as expected from Tom Cruise. However, it's IMO behind in quality to Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse for the best movie of the year.

Well, my day was a bit stressful. Get up nice and early, have a light breakfast, out the door before 8 AM. Few hours later, find out my grandma had a heart attack. "Widowmaker," 100% blockage. Had been having chest pain for several days, though told no one, until today, when her arm went ...

Yeah, food is kinda necessary. ^^ Each one to his financial abilities, eight years ago I couldn't have afforded at all the stuff I'm getting now. I just got lucky that kinda stumbled into a well paying job.

Pretty hyped for that Napoleon movie. I like that period of history very much.

As a matter of contrast, I'm using a 3070ti to play Chrono Trigger, wherein my modern PC is recreating 10 pixel faces with a 1900x1080 resolution. I could do the math here to figure out how many actual pixels are simulating game pixels, but eh. You're describing some pretty nutty tech there tho. Is...

Emma Frost and Tony Stark are getting married. Seems very random, since they don't have any real history or chemistry as characters. And Marvel still won't let Peter and MJ get their marriage back. I haven't followed the comics since they permanently fucked up the X-Men by turning them into a xenop...

I wonder if Fox News is going to get onto that. Geeze, I remember Mass Effect 1, when they were getting angry about Shepard banging the blueberry.

The apparent habit of just leaving a browser tab open all the time is just weird to me. I close my browser when I'm done with them and open them again when I need them. ^^ My boss keeps 70 tabs open at all times. It's maddening and I've started doing it too. :cry: I just don't get that. ^^ I'd get ...

I prefer Displayport, anyway. Well, small mercies, the DP->HDMI cable came in today, got it working again. So it seems only the HDMI port is dead on the GPU. But the monitor now has a strip of lighter pixels along the top, and a little discoloration at the bottom right corner. Fairly sure it's the ...

I prefer Displayport, anyway.

The apparent habit of just leaving a browser tab open all the time is just weird to me. I close my browser when I'm done with them and open them again when I need them. ^^

Progression on Everspace 2 is slow (start of the new anime season, also some other stuff), but I'm really having a lot of fun with the game and the joysticks. I got about 2/3rds of yesterday in (skipped Indiana Jones 5 in the theater for it, after all those abysmal reviews... it'll be on D+ in a few...

Yes, temporary measure. Musk is saying it's because a ton of companies, big and small, are training their AI scripts on Twitter and causing tremendous overhead. Ah, alright. I won't delete all my tabs to my favorite journalists, then. Yet. Strange that I couldn't find any articles about this yester...

Did Twitter just block non-account holders completely from seeing tweets at all?

I crashed my ship into a lot of asteroids in Elite Dangerous. So I feel you. And you can control everything from both joysticks? Yep, aside from somehow not being able to get up/down movement on my right analogue stick to work in the correct way (i.e. pressing up goes up and down goes down, it alwa...

Alright, I got a few hours in with Everspace 2 on the new joysticks and it's so far a real joy. Ahem. :p Circle strafing around an asteroid is very fun, although I still need to get the hang of not ramming my ship accidentally into it by misjudging the thrust from the throttle side. ^^ I was quite a...

Man, that's a comfy setup. Reminds me of what I was aiming for in the 00's, but lacked the funds for. Though 6 hours is a lot of work! Suppose it'll all be worth it in the end :D I had a few minutes with it yesterday and it was very fun. In the week it's difficult to get the time together, though, ...

And all assembled now.

Took about six hours in total with the configuration, calibration and keybinding in Everspace 2. I guess I'll get to that game next weekend.

Alright, I finally finished Midnight Suns . All in all, 80 hours, which it definitely felt like for the second half. The story is mediocre and the gameplay, sadly, turned out to be so as well. Of the about 16 characters you interact with (and need to do a lot of friendship stuff), exactly 5 of them ...

That seems like a considerable amount of boxes for two joysticks. Must be some elaborate accessories. Always thought getting into fighting games would've been really cool, but didn't have the aptitude for it. Though SF6 is supposedly super accessible. Bought an arcade stick years ago, back when ME2...

My new joysticks arrived.

As for the Leliana thing... well, them's the breaks if you want to give your players the maximum of choices. I think at least Mass Effect did it pretty well from ME2 (where you can kill most of your team) to ME3, where the dead people then are replaced if necessary by other characters... who can cha...

Oh, boy. Seems we get "Serious Sokka" again. And I hope the production goes on for some years, if the series turns out (against expectations) to be good, because at least the kid playing Aang is way too young to be romantically interested in Katara's actress (who seems older than him?). Ce...

Saw The Flash tonight and...... eeeeeeeh. Yeah. Some nice moments, even some emotional moments, but the movie at the same time tries too hard and fails to deliver in key aspects. Can't really recommend it after seeing a really good multiverse movie in Across the Spiderverse . Also, Barry Allen, as p...

Seems like we all spoke too soon. "Blizzard Adjusting and Removing Concerning Chromie Quests From Patch 10.1.5 PTR" https://twitter.com/Wowhead/status/1669781220786315288 https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/my-thoughts-on-a-missing-soul-and-why-its-being-received-poorly-chromiealexstr...

Oooof. Yeah, Chromie is pretty hardcore. I can somehow see Alexstraza taking her behind the inn and beating the crap out of her, though. ^^

*Gasps* _Cheating_? In a video game? Well, I changed nothing about the missions themselves and believe me, the "friendship grind" is long enough. Then again, I feel absolutely zero guilt about always installing the "timers are double as long" mod for XCOM2, which definitely affe...

Alright, I solved the ressouce issue in Midnight Suns by, uh, installing some mods, which increase the amount of ressources you get from missions. Works out quite fine now and I am definitely enjoying the game more. I still need to grind friendship and get new cards and upgrade those for all the cha...

https://youtu.be/reABCMNGM3w

Looks very promising. And tons of changes to gameplay as well!

TTTX wrote:at least you only have the friendship once, you don't have to do it again in new game +.

Yeah, I don't think I'll be revisiting this game after I finish it. If I finish it.

I played Midnight Suns for half of the day yesterday and I gotta say, the "friendship simulator" aspect of the game does get tiring quickly. Too many people to juggle (16 in total) and that you don't get a romance option (I'd be very interested in my character having a thing with Magik, si...

Yeah, I presume the mood in the SWTOR community isn't very good at the moment.

You gotta wonder what dark rituals Blizzard did to get that effect for their advertisements.

Huh, that Vanity Moon thing looks interesting. Zack Snyder is a red flag, but sometimes he manages interesting stuff as well.

YESSSSSSSS! I was waiting for the next book! Damn, that's good news.

I finished my short campaign victory for Nkaari. And discovered Immortal Empire campaigns don't _count_ for the campaign victory achievement. Which was very annoying, because that's all I've been doing in my post-work fugue the last few days, was pushing for just that. I'd vassalized the Donut, sec...

So.... Across the Spiderverse . It's fantastic. It's probably the best animation movie (stress on "movie"... Arcane is the best animated TV show of all time.) I've seen in my life. The animators are basically flexing on everyone in the animation industry, except Fortiche Studios (who did A...

I finally think I'm done with this run of Crusader Kings III , after playing it pretty obsessively for one week. I pretty much did everything I set out to do, which was: - Unite Britannia (and rename it Avalon) - Create the Kwisatz Haderach without incesting it up too much (well... at least for a wh...

Alright, I need to solicit opinions. One of my New Years resolutions was that I'd work out at least a few times a month, of which I consider 30-60 minutes to weightlifting to be a "workout." However, now that I'm quite busy with actual, money-making, work, which is manual labor, I've not ...

E L I T E LONGBOWS. Heh. Never got into the more hardcore military simulators for whatever reason. I suppose I assumed I'm too stupid to learn, whereas TW is fairly straightforward once you have a few battle tactics pinned down and a sense of how to balance buildings. Eh, Crusader Kings III is more...

Yeah, I gotta confess, I almost always stick with the order races, except an attempt at another Skaven run sometimes. Was playing a Kroq Gar campaign last week, which was way easier than excepted, I cleaned up everything very easily. Still on it, but I am not very eager to get back to finish at leas...

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